<p>how exactly do pass/fail classes factor into G.P.A.? thanks! :)</p>
<p>as far as i know (which is not very far) i do not think they factor into your GPA whatsoever. they only count as credit i think. bt since you do not get a grade, they do not either help or hurt your GPA. i'll say it again, i only think i know what i'm talking about, as usual.</p>
<p>I can give a bit of info on the pass/fail at Duke. You can't really take any classes pass/fail (that I know of) except for credits taken at other colleges within the US. This would be like what I did this summer, where I took Math 32 (essentially, calc II) at a school close to my house and transferred it to Duke so I wouldn't have to take it at Duke. The way it works is that all I had to do was pass the class. It doesn't factor into my GPA whatsoever, it just appears on my transcript as having taken it. This let's me into some higher classes that have it as a pre-req. </p>
<p>I dont know if this helps, but I hope it does...</p>
<p>Gym classes are also pass/fail. So is the FOCUS dinner course (haha). I think that it is possible to audit courses... but the only information I found was info on a Duke Continuing Studies webpage.</p>
<p>i think any class that is .5 credits or below is pass/fail at duke.</p>
<p>thanks guys, this information really helps!</p>
<p>Does the gym on east campus provide tennis rackets and balls if you want to use the courts? or do I have to bring my own stuff?</p>
<p>Hour-long private instrumental music lessons are .5 credit and for a grade - I'm pretty sure they are the only .5 credit courses with a grade.</p>
<p>Dance classes (.5) are for a grade or P/F - student's choice.</p>
<p>EGR 150L and CEE 100 are both half credit and graded.</p>
<p>Am I in trouble if I just got a call from Dean Simmons wondering why my schedule does not follow the general schedule for engineers?</p>
<p>depends...?</p>
<p>anyone know if we get assigned new mentors (the people who gave us our registration codes) sophmore year?</p>
<p>advisors? You get a new one in your department when you declare your major.</p>
<p>How friendly is DUKE to transfers? I applied as a transfer from GW, it is my top and only choice. I have a 3.5 here, pretty strong HS record, long resume, mvp, captain 2 sports, politically active, african american, low score= 27. Good essays. ne ideas?</p>
<p>How much do extracurriculars matter?</p>
<p>My daughter reads a lot, now is on fanfiction.com and spends all her non-school waking moments (and cutting into some of her sleep time) re-writing endings to her favorite stories.</p>
<p>She belongs to no clubs really, is in the band (playing clarinet for 6 yrs), she is at a boarding school but still not really socializing. She is taking their hardest courses this year, will finish calculus 3 as a senior and hopefully will take physics, she had it one summer and got high school credit just barely. She has a solid science background except we'll see about physics (2 years of chemistry, 2 of biology).</p>
<p>OK, she has like a 3.7 or 3.8 GPA so far and got 800 critical eading, 700 math and 670 writing and 30 compositie on ACT (26 in science, 29 math, 32 English, 32 reading). She will make National Merit semi-finalist and will make finalist if she can get clerical enough to send in the required stuff (her score was 6 points higher than the highest cutoff for our state).</p>
<p>She's like mush when it comes to thinking about college. She is having too much fun on fanfiction.com. </p>
<p>What do you think? This is academic, she won't listento me, but perhaps if you have a scolding enough response, I can send it to her and she can see someone else's opinion. Although even then I'm not sure anything will get thru at present.</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice.</p>
<p>er...not really a scolding response...but I love fanfiction.com too :) </p>
<p>Sorry if this didn't help at all. </p>
<p>I'd say though, don't push her to do something that she's not interested in. If reading and writing is her hobby, then encourage her to channel it towards something constructive like creative writing. See if she likes to write original short stories or something like that. If she likes that, she could even send samples of her work in to colleges along with her app as extra material.</p>
<p>It would help me to decide whether or not it would be practical at all to apply to Duke if I could see an example of a successfull resume (of convenient length, not a full application - perhaps test scrores etc.).</p>
<p>Tm the general Duke forum;</p>
<p>this is Duke class of '11 and gets no traffic.</p>